another Tello Pilot (Android App)

[brick72]

Today the App lost Connection again in between Flight. Tello was on its own than and crashes into a wall.
ATelloPilot was not able to Connect while tello was in the Air.
Broken Rotor and protector.

 

[Dishnu]

Is this still in development I was thinking of getting it but... had some doubts

 

[raulvolador]

Today the App lost Connection again in between Flight. Tello was on its own than and crashes into a wall.
ATelloPilot was not able to Connect while tello was in the Air.
Broken Rotor and protector.

@brick72

I'm sorry about your accident.

Were you using your USB wired Gamesir Ts1 controller ?

another Tello Pilot (Android App)

Something similar happened to me from time to time when using my Gamesir wired controller. Suddenly controller is not recognized for aTelloPilot anymore and I lost control of the airplane. The worse part is that app "remember" last controller command and Tello keeps moving in the last direction with great danger of crashing.

What I do in that case is quickly disconnect usb cable between phone and controller. Tello immediately stops moving and stays hovering, then I can keep flying using only phone touch screen or reconnecting usb cable for aTelloPilot recognize controller again (it can takes several seconds).

I am not sure if that is a bug into the app or rather a problem with the USB OTG support into my phone / android version (Samsung A3 2015 SM-A300FU phone running Android LineageOS 14.1 version)

Is that what happened to you ?

 

[bluejune]

hi @bluejune ,


could you tell me something about it?

You can erase all settings in the App of Android settings.
Click aTelloPilot -> Storage -> Clear Storage & Cache

 

[bluejune]

Hi, quick feedback: I'm using Android Oreo 8.1 stock on my Moto Z3 Play.

It says it connected to Tello, but the image don't come up and I can't take off unless I put on flight mode.
Otherwise, it's working flawless.

Hi,

What do you mean "unless I put on flight mode" ?

 

[bluejune]

My tello drift at the beginning of flight, I had to shake the controller gimbal, then the Tello stay on its place...I hope there will be update to fix this problem

Hi,

What do you mean "I had to shake the controller gimbal"?
Did you need to move OSD stick or your joystick several times?

 

[bluejune]

You are right. It works that way on my USB OTG wired Gamesir T1 controller. Pushing right stick take picture /video and pushing left one switch mode video / photo.

By the way, lately I noticed aTelloPilot app photo mode hanged after switching from video mode and taking some photos. Controller sticks still alive but photo button neverending blinks and you can't shoot photos anymore until landing.

Sometimes it happend to me after taking a dozen of photos and other times only after a couple of them.

It's very annoying. Has it happened to someone else ?

Thanks for your feedback.
It seems file transfer is not finished properly due to packet loss.
I think timeout is required for taking photo to cancel failed photo file transfer.
I'll fix this issue in the next release.

 

[bluejune]

@brick72

I'm sorry about your accident.

Were you using your USB wired Gamesir Ts1 controller ?

another Tello Pilot (Android App)

Something similar happened to me from time to time when using my Gamesir wired controller. Suddenly controller is not recognized for aTelloPilot anymore and I lost control of the airplane. The worse part is that app "remember" last controller command and Tello keeps moving in the last direction with great danger of crashing.

What I do in that case is quickly disconnect usb cable between phone and controller. Tello immediately stops moving and stays hovering, then I can keep flying using only phone touch screen or reconnecting usb cable for aTelloPilot recognize controller again (it can takes several seconds).

I am not sure if that is a bug into the app or rather a problem with the USB OTG support into my phone / android version (Samsung A3 2015 SM-A300FU phone running Android LineageOS 14.1 version)

Is that what happened to you ?

Hi,

How did you notice "Suddenly controller is not recognized"?
Did you see the "device was disconnected" message on the screen?
If so, OSD stick appeared immediately as soon as it was disconnected otherwise I think controller was not disconnected but the controller was not working at that time.

I'll add some protective codes if the controller is disconnected not to send old rc commands.

 

[bluejune]

So whats up here, no Updates anymore? The last Update is quite a while ago.

Sorry for no update for a while.
Actually I've tried several new features but they are not satisfactory yet.
So no update yet..
I'll prepare minor update fixing the reported issues soon.

Thanks.

 

[raulvolador]

Thanks for your feedback.
It seems file transfer is not finished properly due to packet loss.
I think timeout is required for taking photo to cancel failed photo file transfer.
I'll fix this issue in the next release.

@bluejune

I'm glad hearing to you again into this forum

Thanks a lot for your reply.

I'm looking forward next version with photo bug solved.

Raul.

 

[raulvolador]

Hi,

How did you notice "Suddenly controller is not recognized"?
Did you see the "device was disconnected" message on the screen?
If so, OSD stick appeared immediately as soon as it was disconnected otherwise I think controller was not disconnected but the controller was not working at that time.

I'll add some protective codes if the controller is disconnected not to send old rc commands.

@bluejune

I noticed controller is not working becouse Tello keeps moving with no stick input. Other times Tello stays hovering not following stick commands. Also all Gamesir leds get off, except four blue segments battery level indicator.

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It didn't worked the way you say. OSD stick didn't appers inmediatly. I had to unplug USB cable to regain control.

About messages, I rewieved video screen captured for entire flight. Incident sequence was as follows:

01- Flying Tello using Gamesir controller
02- Tello keeps moving and no stick response
03- I disconnected USB OTG cable and Tello stops inmediatly.
04- OSD stick appeared into screen.
05- message "Device connection was lost xiaoji Gamesir-T1 2.13"
06- video image goes black
07- message "Video processing is off Tracking features are deactivated"
08 message "/storage/emulated/0/aTelloPilot/Video/2018-10-04 170629.mp4 is saved"
09- video image is recovered
10- message "/storage/emulated/0/aTelloPilot/Log/flight_log_2018-10-04 170610.DAT is saved"
11- message "Device connection was lost 192.168.10.1:8889"
12- I can control tello using mobile touch screen.
13- I plug USB OTG Gamesir cable again
14- OSD stick dissapear from screen
15- message "Connected to xiaoji Gamesir-T1 2.13"
16- video image goes black
17- Chronometer and distance meter reseted to zero.
18- message "Video processing is off Tracking features are deactivated"
19- message "/storage/emulated/0/aTelloPilot/Log/flight_log_2018-10-04 170954.DAT is saved"
20- video image is recovered
21- message "Connected to xiaoji Gamesir-T1 2.13"
22- message "Device connection was lost 192.168.10.1:8889"
23- I can resume flight normally using controller

Screen captures attached here. I hope it helps

Thaks a lot for your support.

Raul.

 

[raulvolador]

@bluejune

I'm pretty sure aTelloPilot is not guilty of my problems

After performing any more test I noticed Gamesir T1 USB OTG disconecction is not due an aTelloPilot bug but more a hardware/Operating System issue.

(I'm flying using a Samsung A3 2015 SM-A300FU mobile phone running Android LineageOS version 14.1)

I tested Gamesir T1 into another Android aplications and the same disconnection problem occurs.

I installed "Gamepad Tester" Goggle Play free app



This way I could monitorize Gamesir T1 status.
"Gamepad Tester" app shows Gamesir T1 status this way:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=044e Version=0111
N: Name="xiaoji Gamesir-T1 2.13"
P: Phys=usb-msm_hsusb_host-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/msm_hsusb_host/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input50
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event11
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=30627
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=044e Version=0111
N: Name="xiaoji Gamesir-T1 2.13"
P: Phys=usb-msm_hsusb_host-1/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/msm_hsusb_host/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.1/input/input51
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd mouse1 event12
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1f
B: KEY=3007f 0 0 0 0 483ffff 17aff32d bf544446 0 0 1f0001 120f93 8b17c000 677bfa d941dfed 9ed680 4400 0 10000002
B: REL=143
B: ABS=1 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=044e Version=0111
N: Name="xiaoji Gamesir-T1 2.13"
P: Phys=usb-msm_hsusb_host-1/input2
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/msm_hsusb_host/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.2/input/input52
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event13
B: PROP=0
B: EV=13
B: KEY=20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2008000 387a d8011000 1e0000 0 0 0
B: MSC=10

After a few minutes (about fifteen) Gamesir T1 stops working. Even if I move stick/push buttons there is no screen response. No messages. No warnings. Simply it stops working.

However "Gamepad Tester" keeps showing Gamesir controller as connected !

Maybe controller entered into an "sleep" mode ?

I need to investigate more thoroughly.

I'll keep working here Gamesir T1 controller sleep mode

Raul
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[Gathering_cloud]

Hi,

What do you mean "I had to shake the controller gimbal"?
Did you need to move OSD stick or your joystick several times?

Yes, when Tello first take off it Will drift back right, but when i move back - front -side to side on my PS4 gamepad stick several time, the Tello Will stop drifting, and it Will not drift until the battery depleted

 

[bluejune]

@bluejune

I'm pretty sure aTelloPilot is not guilty of my problems

After performing any more test I noticed Gamesir T1 USB OTG disconecction is not due an aTelloPilot bug but more a hardware/Operating System issue.

(I'm flying using a Samsung A3 2015 SM-A300FU mobile phone running Android LineageOS version 14.1)

I tested Gamesir T1 into another Android aplications and the same disconnection problem occurs.

I installed "Gamepad Tester" Goggle Play free app

View attachment 1797

This way I could monitorize Gamesir T1 status.
"Gamepad Tester" app shows Gamesir T1 status this way:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=044e Version=0111
N: Name="xiaoji Gamesir-T1 2.13"
P: Phys=usb-msm_hsusb_host-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/msm_hsusb_host/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input50
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event11
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=30627
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=044e Version=0111
N: Name="xiaoji Gamesir-T1 2.13"
P: Phys=usb-msm_hsusb_host-1/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/msm_hsusb_host/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.1/input/input51
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd mouse1 event12
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1f
B: KEY=3007f 0 0 0 0 483ffff 17aff32d bf544446 0 0 1f0001 120f93 8b17c000 677bfa d941dfed 9ed680 4400 0 10000002
B: REL=143
B: ABS=1 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=044e Version=0111
N: Name="xiaoji Gamesir-T1 2.13"
P: Phys=usb-msm_hsusb_host-1/input2
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/msm_hsusb_host/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.2/input/input52
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event13
B: PROP=0
B: EV=13
B: KEY=20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2008000 387a d8011000 1e0000 0 0 0
B: MSC=10

After a few minutes (about fifteen) Gamesir T1 stops working. Even if I move stick/push buttons there is no screen response. No messages. No warnings. Simply it stops working.

However "Gamepad Tester" keeps showing Gamesir controller as connected !

Maybe controller entered into an "sleep" mode ?

I need to investigate more thoroughly.

Raul
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Thanks for your analysis

 

[bluejune]

Yes, when Tello first take off it Will drift back right, but when i move back - front -side to side on my PS4 gamepad stick several time, the Tello Will stop drifting, and it Will not drift until the battery depleted

If so, I think the joystick reports wrong position.
If you check it with "Gamepad Tester" as raulvolador did, you may see the axis is not centered unless you shake the stick..

 

[raulvolador]

You can read here My personal record is 457 m. about another Tello's range record achieved using aTelloPilot.

It's clear that @bluejune app is very popular among long range Tello pilots.

 

[GabrielK]

@bluejune, please, spend some of your valuable time to improve jaw control.

We need a way to make Tello rotation more smooth, so we get much better videos.

Thanks in advance!

Regards

Gabriel

 

[Zeno]

Hi,

I published an Android app called aTelloPilot (another Tello Pilot).
Below features are supported.

Click WiKi page for the detailed explanation

1. Tello supported
2. Several controllers supported
- Bluetooth / USB game controllers
- Parrot FlyPad
- OSD controller with Gyro
3. Photo / Video supported
- Capturing and recording
- Viewer
4. Extra features supported
- Face tracking
- Head tracking
- Flight route and Position tracking
5. Tweaks supported
- ALT limit up to 30m
- Flight log saving

[Init Screen]
View attachment 820

[Full features]
- Distance, heading indicators are supported
- Stick trims supported
- Gyro control supported
View attachment 807

[Game controller button mapping]
- Bluetooth/USB game controllers are supported
- Bluetooth may interfere WiFi so broken images can be displayed frequently
- Buttons are mapped to function buttons of Controller Screen
View attachment 808


[FlyPad]
- Parrot FlyPad is supported
View attachment 812

[Head Tracking]
- Drone orientation is aligned with device orientation
- Drone rotates as you rotate
View attachment 809


[Flight Route and Position Tracking]
- Flight route is displayed on the screen
- If target position is set, drone will go there automatically
View attachment 810


[Face Tracking]
- Click a detected face to track, drone follows selected face
- If the face disappears, it stops tracking
View attachment 811

Any feedbacks are welcome.

Hi bluejune, is possible for your virtual stick to follow the finger's on virtual stick?!if ever kindly please enlarge a little bit the areas to control the virtual stick...
My fingers keep slipping and lost orientation ? I don't have real controller and base from others users also...the virtual stick are not phone user's friendly ????

 

[raulvolador]

Thanks for your feedback.
It seems file transfer is not finished properly due to packet loss.
I think timeout is required for taking photo to cancel failed photo file transfer.
I'll fix this issue in the next release.

Hi, @bluejune ,

What about a new aTelloPilot version fixing Taking-Photo-Issue ?

I wait anxious for new releases

Cheers.

 

[Dishnu]

@bluejune ,
I love this App, my only question is how do i get it to read in imperial and not metric.

Dishnu